Session #88 · 1963–65

Speech #880062362

We will indeed be fortunate if that act is allowed to expire at the end of this year. The Bracero Act has created a cheap labor supply for large growers in American agriculture with seasonal labor needs. Wages for the domestic migrant worker will not. therefore. rise above the wage of the bracero. One of the results of such wage depression for migrant workers is the high incidence of child labor. Children are pressed into service to allow the family to subsist. In such a setting. education for the migrant child is an almost unobtainable goal. Let us look at the testimony of Miss Cassandra Stockburger. of the National Child Labor Committee. before the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor this past April 23: Last summer in a visit to a migrant area I talked with a boy about 13 or 14. When Don came to the school at 1 p.m.. he had already worked in the fields from about 4:30 a.m.. to 12:30. I asked him how many beans he had picked.
Keywords matched
migrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
HENRY GONZALEZ
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
TX
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
880062362
Paragraph
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